Attached is the first part of the report from  Dr. Kingsley Donkor and Megan Campbell of the Thompson Rivers University Chemistry department analyizing water from the first of two filters that were brought to be evaluated for the possiblility of problems with Barium in clay used to form filters. These results are for the new 100% Plainsman red earth filter. You can read the report but essentially even analysis of a un flushed filter shows the barium level to be one third of the allowable limit initially and then  reduced to one third of that level very quickly.

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